Sandra Boffi, instructor for Spanish for Grown–UpsSandra Boffi
Sandra Boffi is our primary hands–on teacher. She is a credentialed, native Spanish-speaking professional teacher. See her qualifications below.
Riccardo Accurso
Riccardo sets the agenda for the Spanish classes according to insights gained by his practical and formal experience in academics and learning Spanish and teaching English in Spain.
Riccardo has lived in Spanish-speaking countries for considerable periods of time — in Spain for three years teaching English, and in Mexico over a period of twenty years or so, preparing notes for a book that he self–published in 1980 titled Practical Spanish: A Simplified Approach. Riccardo has been living in Argentina about six months a year for the past six years.
On the formal side, Riccardo studied psycholinguistics and linguistics at the University of Illinois and obtained a master's degree there in 1964. Knowledge of the psychological underpinnings of language, combined with the experience of real–life conversational styles forms the basis of his unique educational method.
Two pronged–approach
Sometimes a native speaker doesn't quite understand the challenges that English speakers face, so it's useful to have a two–pronged approach: one from an English speaker's mindset, and the other from a native speaker's Spanish mindset. Riccardo sets the program, but native speakers deliver the instruction in Spanish. The student benefits from the combination of both points of view.
To learn more about the features and rationale for the approach, click on the METHOD tab.
Sandra Boffi's qualifications are:
• Licenciada en Letras Modernas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.
(Master's degree in Modern Literature).
• Bachiller bilingüe ( Belgrano Day School, Buenos Aires.)
• Proficiency in English (Cambridge University).
(B.A. degree, bilingual, from Cambridge)
• Especializaciones en inglés y en educación, cursos, seminarios y workshops en el país (Córdoba — Buenos Aires); Italia (Lombardía); EEUU (New York University — Rice University) e Inglaterra (Londres).
(Specializations in English and Education, with courses in Argentina, Italy, the U.S. and London, England)
- Docente bilingüe en los colegios: Mary Graham, Godspell College, Belgrano Day School y Dover High School de Buenos Aires.
(Bilingual teacher
in various schools...)
- Actualmente es Coordinadora del Departamento de inglés del Nivel Inicial del Colegio San Jorge desde el año 2006.
(Currently Director of the English Department for the first level at the San Jorge School in Mendoza.)
- Click here to see SPECIAL RATES
- Click here to see a SLIDESHOW of a program.
Lunch features home–cooked, 
Enjoying lunch together
Students display their diplomas